I do kind of recall the media running some sort of story about Bill Clinton having an extramarital affair.... does anyone else remember that, or am I just daydreaming?

Nah, Rush must be right, media is much too liberally biased to ever run a story like that about Bill.

-Jeremy

Gee joejoe, you're reacting rather strongly to a simple news item. Why does the straightforward presentation of a fact ("Fox news calls Mississippi for Obama") without any opinion or commentary strike you as unfair?

Oh, right, I forgot, you're a troll. You'd have posted the same prepared text no matter what the story was.

Seriously, unless there is some major terrorist attack that brings everyone back to their 9/12 "oh god do anything just don't let the bad guys hurt us again" mentality, it's hard to see how McCain can win. Either he appeals to the Bush 29% (which is what he appears to be attempting), or he appeals to the rest of the country and loses that 29%. Not many Democrats will be voting for him -- they're happy with their own candidates this time. That leaves him with around 30% of the vote either way. So while I'll never underestimate the Democrats' ability to lose an election, it's really hard to see how McCain can win this time.

That was actually kind of catchy. Silly, granted, but it could've been much worse.

It doesn't.

(Just answerin')

Let the infighting begin! Who can feel the most victimized this time?

Bleah :^P

The only thing "carrying the state" has to do with anything is psychological momentum, and that's only because people are used to winner-take-all elections.

The fact is, delegates will be awarded (roughly) proportionally to the popular vote. So it's in both campaigns' best interests to compete as hard as they can in Pennsylvania, regardless of who is predicted to come out ahead.

That's the benefit of proportional representation (or the drawback, if you prefer... after all, the Republicans have 100% agreed on their candidate already and we haven't)

The point, my dear BabyGrumpus, is to give you (and all the other curmudgeons who have nothing better to do than read Salon articles and then complain about them) something to live for. Writing grumpy letters is your best entertainment value; God knows it's cheaper than cable.

I'm sure there are people who simply can't spell, but for many such as myself, it's not ignorance so much as carelessness.

My brain means to type "he won the prize", but my fingers, having long since evolved their muscle memory to the point where they have some sort of low-grade independent intelligence of their own, occasionally decide to go by the phonetics and type out "he one the prize" anyway.

Most of the time I'll catch that immediately, or if not I'll catch it when I re-read the message before clicking "Send". The trouble happens when I get careless and don't bother re-reading carefully, of course... then I see my dumb mistake visible to all, but there's little that can be done about it at that point. Doh!

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

Somehow I think "Triage Day" sends the wrong message. If people are willing to do so little now, how much less will they do if they are told "you might as well give up, the Earth is beyond hope. Just dig a deep hole and try to save yourself, there's nothing much else you can do".

Not exactly inspiring, is it?

Even if we can't save everything, we have to at least aim to do so.... partial success on an ambitious goal is much more success than partial success on a much smaller goal.

The answer is "yes".

It's not "in search of a problem". The problem is obvious: if they allow the people to vote, they might vote for Democrats.

I'd like to buy a cup of hot chocolate for all the reflexive Obama-bashers that appear in every Salon.com comments thread. Cheer up guys, maybe he's not as bad as you think. Shawn, I'm putting extra marshmallows in yours.

-Jeremy

Why does MoveOn feel the need to apologize for a video that they never accepted, never endorsed, and never even posted on their site? Any dingbat can make an offensive video and submit it to a contest; that hardly makes the contest organizers responsible for the video's content.

-Jeremy

Hi Clockwork Smurf,

I think the argument is one of fair play. Disney plundered the public domain for many of their creations (i.e. the ones shown in the cartoon above). Now when it comes Disney's turn to give their creations to the public domain, they don't want to do it -- they'd rather change the rules.

That's what pisses people off -- Disney had no problems taking advantage of expired copyrights when it benefited them, but they don't want to allow anyone else the same opportunities they received. People see that as selfish, and "cheating".

-Jeremy

When the sh*t hits the fan, at least Hagee knows he's a problem and falls on his sword. Wright, on the other hand, chose to double down... oy.

Oh well, perhaps now that everybody has their crazy-pastor problems behind them, the rest of the campaign can be about issues relevant to the American people.

-Jeremy